The Platform that Powers Your Entrepreneurial Community


The need for inclusive and effective entrepreneurial thinking inspired TheStartup.com to build a highly customizable PLATFORM that powers organizations and communities to deliver entrepreneurship programs easily and successfully.

Successful startups all start somewhere. We recommend here.

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Features
We help develop new ideas by making the process supportive, connected, and with tools that are always available from your phone 24/7, so individuals can create their solutions at their own pace.

For the Entrepreneur:

My Venture

Generate your profile and a personalised journey plan. This guides you to learn, build and populate everything you need to be mentor, investor or go to market ready.

Playbooks

Navigate new categories by assessing your needs with a simple Q&A and then learning from engaging content. Complete a list of actions to help you build our your venture easily in a great structure.

My Assets

Populate the right templates and tools that explain your venture. Don’t waste time and effort trying to find business plans, competitor analysis or customer persona etc. Everything you need is here.

Community

Connect with your fellow founders, potential team members, job seekers as well as mentors and investors. You are not alone in your new venture journey.

Marketplace

Get discounts on products and services and find job seekers to help you on your journey. You can also post your new venture when you are ready to start getting customers and revenue.

Enables

For the Organization...

Actionable Insight

Understand your community demographics and their engagement in your programs. Gauge the performance of all of your resources providing you will actionable insight to improve your programs.

Self Direction

Empower your members to direct themselves through your syllabus and programs. Make them ready to meet you, your mentors or participate in real world workshops and training.

Consistent Outcomes

Reduce you and your partners review time of program outcomes with a consistent suite of templates and tools. These can be forwarded in a workflow or via attachment to any stakeholder for review.

Easy Engagement

Engage your community in whole or part, to make announcements or schedule events. See who is connecting with whom and how actively your members are engaging with your organization.

Resource Provision

Provide your members with discounted services from trusted providers globally or in your local community.  Post member ventures in this marketplace to source customers from your community and beyond.

Partners
Join Leading Entrepreneurial Organisations
Benefits

Making life easier for the entrepreneur and the organization

TheStartup.com platform makes life easier for the entrepreneur by simplifying the search for the right resources at the right time. It also supports organizations by providing a single platform that contains program content, people, partners, and other resources and opportunities.

Our clients measure success by the number of programs successfully completed by their entrepreneurs. This approach provides a clear return on investment of their time, effort, and capital in a single dashboard.
For Entrepreneurs

On Demand

Our mobile-first design makes progress accessible anywhere, any time.

Gamified

Making progress on your venture was created to be fun with visual cues.

Guided

Forget about people telling you what you should do! We guide you through what’s best for you.
For Organizations

Efficient

Provide opportunities for more entrepreneurs without increasing your operational costs.

Inclusive

Don’t reject anyone due lack of program space. There is room for everyone on this platform!

Insightful

Know how your programs and people are performing, so you understand your return on investment.
Mission

Who We Help

TheStartup.com is making participation easier for ALL interested in entrepreneurship by providing a framework for success through our customizable platform.

TheStartup.com adapts to the needs of a wide range of varied organizations:
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Serving the Underserved

Providing aspiring underrepresented entrepreneurs with the business curriculum, professional community, and startup mindset to launch their businesses. Everyone should be able to pursue their dreams. 
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Strengthening Communities

Demonstrating how entrepreneurship can revitalize local communities by creating opportunities for jobs, economic wellbeing, and business independence through all types of entrepreneurial endeavors.
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Corporate Impact

Opportunities for corporations and enterprise brands to connect with “disruptors” determined to tackle the toughest problems and to associate with entrepreneurs at all stages of their life cycle.
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Future Generations

Enabling a next generation of problem solvers to access entrepreneurial thinking… whether at the college or high school level.
Testimonials

Don’t just take our word for it

Hear from some of our amazing customers who have transformed their entrepreneurial communities.
"Without the TheStartup.com, The Boost Pad would not be where it is today. We never felt that we were a customer; we always felt like a partner. Their focus to democratize entrepreneurships for ALL resonates with our community."
Steven Lewis
CEO, The Boost Pad and Co-Active Capital
“With the TheStartup.com PLATFORM™ solution, we found a product to meet our requirements and a company that would work with us to co-design even better tools based on many conversations, workshops, and feedback from the student founders. The platform will be the engine that powers the next generation of student startups at Trinity College, and we look forward to a long partnership.”
Gavan Drohan
Head of Entrepreneurship, Trinity College Dublin
“Our vision with Venture 313 is to simplify the entrepreneurial journey for Detroit founders by delivering coaching, capital, and community through one, easy-to-use platform. TheStartup.com has been a great partner in providing the technology and strategic support to help make this vision a reality.”
James Feagin
Director of Economic Mobility for the Gilbert Family Foundation
Resources

Read and Listen

TheStartup.com is making participation easier for ALL interested in entrepreneurship by providing a framework for success through our customizable platform.TheStartup.com adapts to the needs of a wide range of varied organizations:
Podcast
Emma Jones, Founder of Enterprise Nation
December 6, 2022
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St. John’s Dr. Luca Landoli Discusses Similarities between Inventor & Entrepreneur
December 6, 2022
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SMU’s Jim Hart Discusses Why Creativity is Central to Entrepreneurship
December 5, 2022
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UAB’s Dr. Patrick J. Murphy Discusses the Balance between Theory & Practice in Entrepreneurial Education
December 5, 2022
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News
The Boostpad Launches Their Nitro Fund
October 24, 2022
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Education
5 things you need to know to start your business
October 24, 2022
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Podcast
St. John’s Dr. Luca Landoli Discusses Similarities between Inventor & Entrepreneur
December 6, 2022
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About

Why Choose Us?

TheStartup.com is making participation in starting a business accessible for anyone of any background.

Our goal is to help grow new ideas by making the process supportive, engaging, connected, and with tools that are always available-- so individuals can develop their solutions at their own pace.

Our team is made up of entrepreneurs who each have a lived experience of starting and running successful businesses.
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